Day: February 7, 2018

Love, Gilda, a documentary about Emmy-winning and Grammy-winning comedian Gilda Radner, will open the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival on April 18, 2018. As The Comic’s Comic reported back in 2014, director Lisa D’Apolito helped make this documentary with an Indiegogo campaign. The finished film, completed with the support of the Gilda Radner estate, including audiotapes, rare home movies, and interviews with original SNL cast members Chevy Chase, Laraine Newman, Paul Shaffer, writer Alan Zweibel, Second City CEO Andrew Alexander, SNL creator Lorne Michaels, and Radner’s longtime friend, Martin Short. Radner and Short performed together in a Toronto production of...